CCT 205
Professor G. Benick and Professor M. Jones

Study Guide for Test 1


Test Date/Time/Place: Week 6, February 12, 2009 from 1 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. in the J102

Coverage: All lectures, assigned readings, guest lectures, lab activities in
Weeks 1 – 5.

Format: Short answers and essay

Required: A pen for short answers and essay and UTM student identification card, which will be checked during the test.

Value: 25% of final mark in CCT 205

Key concepts and terms: the following list is intended to assist students to study for the test by focusing attention on important concepts and terminology covered in the first half of the course.

Important Note: the following list does not represent the complete list of terms and concepts that will be covered on test 1. This list is a guide only.


Attributes of the network society
Technological determinism
Social shaping perspective
Web 1.0 and 2.0
Richard Florida’s creative class
3 Media paradigms
Toronto transit camp
Open creative communities
Engagement pyramid
Post-industrialism
Information society
Fordism and Post-fordism
Postmodernism
Instrumentalism
Substantivism
Social constructivism
Time space compression
Deterritorialization
Interactivity
Customization
Manuel Castells
Michel Foucault
Frank Webster
Saul Alinsky
Characteristics of new economy
Robotics
Comparison of industrial and information society
Network enterprise
Generic labour
Self programmable labour
Restructuring of work and employment in new economy
Flexible production and management models in new economy
Non-standard employment
IT trends in Silicon Valley
Temporal and spatial dislocation of work
Portfolio workers
Taylorism
Sloanism
Sources of surveillance data
Bentham’s Panopticon
RFID
Carnivore
Trojan horse
Drive by downloads
Online advocacy